ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,166, issued on July 28, was assigned to Michael Baker International Inc. (Moon Township, Pa.).

"System, method, and, computer products for one-dimensional hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of stream networks" was invented by Kranti Kumar Bandi (Bridgeville, Pa.) and Brendan Allen Barnes (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product is provided for obtaining stream network data including a stream network elevation for one or more streams, a plurality of centerlines, and flow information in the stream network, generating a discrete stream points corresponding to a point of a regular inte...